The City of Greensboro – in partnership with the North Carolina League of Municipalities and Colliers Engineering & Design – is holding an all-day event this month to get citizens thinking about the importance of historic preservation and “storytelling.”
The one-day educational event will ask and answer questions such as, “How does historic preservation strengthen cities and towns?” and “How does storytelling promote equity and showcase a community’s diversity?”
Organizers say you’ll be able to find out some of the answers at “Telling the Complete Story: Preserving African American History & Heritage,” which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15.
The event will be at the Greensboro History Museum at 130 Summit Ave. in downtown Greensboro.
However, not all of the class will take place at the museum: The day’s programming also includes two mobile tours of some of the city’s most unique historic preservation efforts.
The event will feature local and state preservation experts and others offering insights on the subject as well as sharing stories of best practices in this realm.
One goal is to show how Greensboro’s historic preservation program is “evolving to serve the community in a more equitable and inclusive manner — in a way that tells the story of the City’s past more accurately and completely.”
The class will also teach techniques on how to “effectively document, recognize, and communicate the impact and legacy of local assets and historic sites for the preservation and protection of African American history and neighborhoods.”
A few of the many presenters will be City of Greensboro Planning Director Sue Schwartz, NC African American Heritage Commission Director Adrienne Nirdé, Deputy General Counsel of the NC League of Municipalities Tom Carruthers and Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan.
Space is limited and online registration by May 10 is required in order to attend.
You can register at https://members.nclm.org/Courses-Events/Live-Events-Webinars/Meeting-Home-Page?meetingid=%7BD2358D44-20E6-EE11-904C-000D3A31C322%7D
“The City of Greensboro – in partnership with the North Carolina League of Municipalities and Colliers Engineering & Design – is holding an all-day event this month to get citizens thinking about the importance of historic preservation and “storytelling.”
This is code for “We are about to pick your pockets…I mean raise your taxes (same difference) again to pay for another downtown boondoggle.”
Again you are so right. We have been taken over and it seems there is no turning back. Welcome to Blacksboro!
Welcome, and thank Skip Alston and the Greensboro city council for your house appreciating so much you are allowed to tap that equity and move to Eden whenever you are ready.
Hey big city 15 and counting it’s only May. 95 % by blacks keep crowing moron
We have been erasing so much history lately, it is refreshing to see the city footing some preservation.
This effort is not about preserving Greensboro history, it is about preserving Greensboro’s Black history. If it were about preserving Greensboro history, there would have been an outcry from the public when the Confederate Memorial in Green Hill Cemetery was destroyed in July 2020. But not one peep from City Council, not one peep from the police department, not one peep from businesses. Not only was the Memorial erected in the late 1880s but was a grave marker for the unknown Confederate soldiers buried in Green Hill. The reaction to the destruction of the memorial by Greensboro’s cowardly city politicians and businesses is disgusting. It is my understanding that the police department was told to do nothing about finding the culprits. A resident from the neighborhood stated that heavy equipment was used to do the dirty deed. So, no, I will not be supporting the Greensboro’s historic preservation program that is “evolving to serve the community in a more equitable and inclusive manner.”
Lol, another racist stab at spending and asking for tax dollars. You know, equitable and inclusive…buzz words for DEI. Noticed Skip’s name not mentioned.
You know every time I read about the Importance of Preserving the African American History or a picture of the F W Woolworth Co, it makes me sick. That place does have it’s importance where African American History was made, but it also has important for American History also. I remember shopping there with my Mother and Grandmother back in the 1960’s. It and Sears in downtown Greensboro were the only places I remember going to. But you never hear any thing about that part of it’s history. Just the sit in at the counter. Why is it only about the African American History? But I’m only reminded of the money pit it has become for the tax payers here. If it can’t support it’s self and has to continue to come to the taxpayers for financial support then shut it down. That’s my rant for today.
Well, let’s hope they include the fun facts of which tribes in Africa were actually capturing and selling subordinate tribes to the Spanish, and the fact that such classification goes on to this day. Africa is the most segregationist country in the world depending on which tribe you’re from, research it. Of course, we can’t let the facts get in front of a good narrative, which directly impacts what history this commission is trying re-write. They are trying to suppress the real history of this great country, but won’t succeed. If they do manage to get into fairly recent history, they should include the original Black Panther movement and how Angela Davis, Hughey Newton, Malcolm X were frequent visitors to Greensboro and how Eldridge Cleaver came here and “practiced” raping black girls for eventual assault on “whitey women”, per his book. I’ve lived here since 1967 and remember the Woolworth’s “Colored Only” areas and the busses with “colored only” in the back, but I had some black classmates at Grimsley that I felt no animosity towards and in fact were friends with, and that was before the “victim age”. We are different cultures, so respect that and refuse to let this modern day “victim cult” BS influence how we actually live with each other. Us older folks do, don’t let them twist history. Are “we” in any authority to say now if any of that was right at that time, I posit “no”, it was what it was.
“Africa is the most segregationist country in the world depending on which tribe you’re from, research it.” You do know that Africa is a whole continent and not a country, right?
I hope they work on preserving the buildings at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia. Those have been neglected and are an important part of educational history in this area.
If they really cared about Preserving African American History & Heritage they’d quit destroying small communities like the one being wiped out at the intersection of Lewiston and Fleming Rd. There are numerous places like that in the area that are being torn up by housing and apartment developments and road widening. Small African American communities are being lost after generations while no one pays any attention, along with trees and peaceful country roads.
Your comment harkens back to the urban renewal in Greensboro’s Black business community in the 1960s. Urban renewal was a bad idea. Too bad no one attempted to foresee the damage it would cause.
I have driven past the Charlotte Hawkins Brown 6 times this week. I have only seen 4 cars there.
The amount of money spent on restoring and upkeep on this facility is criminal. I have heard that this memorial costs the taxpayers the most of any in the state.
Preserving what black history, the fact that of the 70+ murders last year that over 90% were committed by blacks. Some history to be proud of. And by the way, Greensboro’s Woolworth was NOT the first the the country to stage a sit-in protest.